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Despite the derivative nature of their games, they were a bunch with good moral principles.

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Games like this were the strong suit of Ambrosia Software, a now-defunct software house specialized in вЂњenhanced remakesвЂќ. My beloved Bubble Trouble, a game about pushing the walls of a labyrinth to squash enemies, is just an unlicensed reworking of classic arcade game Pengo. Even games I was sure I hadnвЂ™t seen anywhere else turned out to be clones. Apeiron is not just a Centipede-like, but an exact replica of the game with a psychedelic coat of paint Maelstrom is just a prettier version of Asteroids.

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Looking back, I realize my gaming history is a bizarro world of other childrenвЂ™s memories, full of distorted versions of the games everyone knows.

I asked my dad and his official answer was: вЂњWell, you seemed to really like it!вЂќ A+ parenting skills, dad.

DonвЂ™t ask me why my child self was allowed to play a game about running over cyclists, crashing against cars and avoiding the cops. The metallic sound of cars hitting other cars in racing game Burning Rubber. The вЂњPEW PEWвЂќ of my spaceship shooting asteroids in Maelstrom.

I remember the вЂњYEAAAAAH!вЂќ that greeted me every time I booted up the Centipede-like Apeiron. And yet, the sound effects ring in my mind with crystalline clarity. Most of those early games are fuzzy memories. Part of his work also consisted of taking care of a hyperactive daughter, and he brilliantly solved the task by putting baby Giada in front of his Mac and letting her mash the keyboard. I grew up with a Mac because my dad is an engineering professor, and most specialist software he needed didnвЂ™t run on Windows. The name of this flight sim evaded me for so long because I grew up with a Mac, and no one ever talks about the few scrappy games that were available to us, the children of the nineties who, for one reason or another, got stuck with the uncool operating system. I learned this only twenty years later, when I recognised it in a video compilation of old games. Unable to control my plane, I could only watch it spiral and crash. I remember a blue sky and green land and some yellow rectangle where I was supposed to land, but couldnвЂ™t, because I was three or four years old and videogames were new and confusing. You should also read this page from Macintosh Garden.My first videogame memory is about falling. Mac emulation is more complicated than DOS emulation, but the E-Maculation community is very helful, with tons of guides and tutorials in english.

Basilisk II: setup guide on Windows, Mac or Linux.

SheepShaver: setup guide on Windows, Mac or Linux.

These ROM files are quite annoying to get, you can extract one from a working Mac, or get one for vMac here (archived), or several one with You'll have to find a Mac computer ROM to emulate a Mac computer. Making Mac games work is quite complicated compared to DOS games.

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Many old games will work fine in a SheepShaver or Basilisk II, you should only install and configure one emulator first and to run the game in it. Mini vMac: games from the 80s, although some games were still made for the emulated Mac in th early 90s.

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Basilisk II: games from 1991 to 1996 (MacOS 7 to 8.1), follow the download links to the precompiled binaries, made available on E-Maculation forums.

SheepShaver: games from mid 90s to 2005 (MacOS 8.1 to 9.0.4), follow the download links to the precompiled binaries, made available on E-Maculation forums.

You will need one of these softwares to play them: Macintosh emulation is quite hard to achieve, you'll have to try and fail a lot, and do a lot of research.ДЄbout 1000 Mac games are available on MyAbandonware, from 1980 to 2005.